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‘The room was mixed with conversations in Gaelic, Roman, Galic, and Frankish.’

‘Both English and Gaelic are taught in primary school (called National School).’

‘He was educated at Christian Brother's Schools in Dublin and took Gaelic, English, Latin and maths as his honour subjects in his final year.’

‘The website has more information on it in English than in Gaelic, for example.’

‘I could not understand what they were saying because it was all in Gaelic.’

‘For many performers it was a statement of identity, allied to a desire for constitutional change and the need to maintain languages such as Welsh, Gaelic, Breton and Erse, threatened with extinction.’

‘We then transcribed the recording in English and Gaelic.’

‘Its distinctive features come from Norse, Gaelic and French.’

‘For every student sitting key exams who was fluent in the language in 1999, there are now two speakers of Gaelic.’

‘However, unlike English and Gaelic, Scots words are frequently spelt in a variety of ways, leading to problems in drawing up a recognised system.’

‘Many Gaelic speakers died in the Great Famine of the 1840s, and Gaelic was replaced by English, which was needed to achieve social mobility.’

‘Either of these would be a good exchange for any book tokens you may have lying around, and the latter has a very useful checklist of Scotland's native flora, with names listed in Latin, English, Gaelic and Scots.’

‘Learners of Gaelic are often plagued by the traditional rules of grammar.’